Something inside me hearkening back to my childhood with an artistic mother, yearns for summer afternoon art projects. After we had done all the weeding and swam a good half day, mom would lay out her watercolors on the dining room table (protected with a faded red table cloth), give us each a piece of quality watercolor paper and [...]
 The Washington Post published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words. 1. Coffee, n. The person upon whom one coughs. 2. Flabbergasted, adj. Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained. 3. Abdicate, v. To give up all hope of ever having [...] Did you do this when you were a kid? Mine kept telling me you can do them in rainbow colors now with a kit but I wanted to do it the old fashioned way: Buy your Rit dye color, wind the cotton shirt with rubber bands, mix up the dye and there you go. It’s [...]  I saw this car at an autobody shop on the Hill. I’ve always dreamed of owning a British racing green convertible MG.  My good friend Rachel just visited from Seattle and brought along a hostess gift to die for. She found it on her travels in California at a place called, Francesca’s Collections. As she said, horrible name, but amazing boutique! I’ve hardly taken it off my finger, except to wash dishes and photograph it. One day a chair suspended high in the air on a pole appeared in a vacant lot near where I live. There was chatter on some of the blogs and everyone was asking where this mysterious chair had come from. Lately the chair has become part of an entire “exhibit” located in that vacant lot. Apparently [...]  "Sympathique" and "Hang on Little Tomato" by Pink Martini. "Hang on Little Tomato" still remains my favorite. I have been on a French music kick. I think it makes for the perfect summer party music but the touch of melancholy that all the songs seem to have would also make it work for the winter. Here are [...] A very quick trip from Washington D.C. is this idyllic land called the Eastern Shore. It is beautifully quaint, perfect for walking. You remember I told you about a wonderful blog reader who was willing to share her house with us when we were visiting our newest grandson? And you might remember that I was [...] A big THANK YOU to our guest blogger today and good friend of Erin’s, Alison: It was a weekend a year in the making. Anyone who has met Tim knows that it doesn’t take long before “The Tomato Festival” comes up. This is usually followed by, “you have to go.” After the 5th or 6th time [...] I promised to post the outfits I scored at Jinglebobs and I didn't forget, it just took me awhile. The shirt and belt I already owned but I bought the skirt. I'm into pencil skirts right now. All my A-line skirts have been remade into pencil skirts. I thought this was a fun little [...] Meghan’s post about the ugly dresser turned into a lovely toasted marshmallow, challenged me to work some wonder with a yellow dresser that has been passed around the family for years now. I called Meghan and asked her what she thought of dark grey. She said go for it told me to strip the knobs down [...] I received this today from a beautiful young mother and asked if I could post it. She said I could. Once upon a time, there was a beautiful man who fell in love with a beautiful woman, fiery and tender, and she fell in love back at him. They became king and queen of a small [...] Becky over at A Covenant Life just made me remember a quote that really encouraged me when I was a young mom. It shot holes in the idea that their is an apex to the Christian life that ends with “holy and spiritual missionary or pastor life,” which would be way more sanctifying than a [...] Don’t you kinda feel naked if someone knocks on your door unexpectedly? You take this quick sweeping look to see what they’ll see. And you feel slightly exposed. It’s like too much information that you just were not planning to share right then. And I just had this happen when Andrew invited our neighbors in [...] I read somewhere once that pink was the color for dressing baby boys in during the 1700′s since it is a muted form of red, which to this day, is thought of as a masculine color. Well, somewhere along the line that whole idea went totally out the window and most men today recoil at the very idea of pink entering [...] I never really liked the wood color or the handles. Originally I was collecting all different kinds of knobs from Anthropologie and was going to use them. But in the end I decided to spray paint original drawer pulls. I finally got it done. It’s only been on my to do list for about two [...] |
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